* DEPARTURE OF ATHANASIUS FOR ROME (P. LXXXII., THE AUTHORITIES AGREE AS TO THE YEAR, AND THEIR DATA COMBINE READILY AS TO THE EXACT DAYS).

340.

JANUARY.

EUSEBIAN BISHOPS MEET AT ANTIOCH AND REPLY TO JULIUS. THEIR LETTER REACHES ROME IN SPRING.

AUTUMN.

ROMAN COUNCIL AND REPLY OF JULIUS TO EUSEBIANS (EIGHTEEN MONTHS FROM ARRIVAL OF ATH.IN ROME).

341.

MIDSUMMER.

COUNCIL OF THE DEDICATION AT ANTIOCH. FOUR CREEDS.

342.

MAY.

ATHANASIUS LEAVES ROME (AFTER THREE YEARS' STAY) FOR MILAN.

CONSTANS LEAVES HIM THERE (FRANKISH CAMPAIGN).

SUMMER.

CONSTANS REPELS EUSEBIAN DEPUTIES AT TREVERI (P. XLV.).

LATE AUTUMN.

DEATH OF EUSEBIUS OF NICOMEDIA OR CP.

343.

EASTER.

ATHANASIUS AT TREVERI

JULY.

ASSEMBLY OF COUNCIL OF SARDICA.

344.

EASTER.

ATHANASIUS AT NAISSUS.

AFTER EASTER.

DEPOSITION OF STEPHEN: COUNCIL AT ANTIOCH APPOINT LEONTIUS AND ISSUE `MACROSRICH.'

AUGUST.

CONSTANTIUS WRITES FORBIDDING PERSECUTION OF ORTHODOX AT ALEXANDRIA.

345.

EASTER, APRIL 7.

ATHANASIUS AT AQUILEIA.

COUNCIL AT MILAN. PHOTINUS CONDEMNED.

JUNE 26.

DEATH OF GREGORY AT ALEXANDRIA (ABOUT TEN MONTHS AFTER LETTER OF CONSTANTIUS).

346.

SEPTEMBER.

INTERVIEW OF ATH. WITH CONSTANTIUS AT ANTIOCH.

OCT. 21.

RETURN TO ALEXANDRIA.

END OF YEAR.

EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE FOR CONSECRATION OF FRUMENTIUS BY ATHANASIUS.

347.

FIRST COUNCIL AT SIRMIUM AGAINST PHOTINUS.

349.

CONTROVERSY WITH ROME CONCERNING EASTER.

350.

JAN. 18.

MURDER OF CONSTANS.

351.

MAR. 15.

GALLUS PROCLAIMED AS `CONSTANTIUS CÆSAR.'

SEP. 28.

BATTLE OF MURSA.

SECOND COUNCIL OF SIRMIUM. PHOTINUS DEPOSED.

353.

MAY 19.

LEGATION OF SERAPION, &C., TO CONSTANTIUS. MONTANUS AT ALEXANDRIA.

353.

AUTUMN.

COUNCIL AT ARLES AGAINST ATHANASIUS.

354.

EXECUTION OF GALLUS.

355.

COUNCIL AT MILAN AGAINST ATHANASIUS.

JULY-DEC.

DIOGENES AT ALEXANDRIA.

NOVEMBER.

JULIAN `CÆSAR. '

356.

JAN. 6.

SYRIANUS AT ALEXANDRIA.

FEB. 8.

CHURCH OF THEONAS STORMED BY SYRIANUS.

BEGINNING OF THIRD EXILE.

JUNE 10.

CATAPHRONIUS BECOMES PREFECT OF EGYPT.

357.

FEB. 24.

GEORGE ENTERS ALEXANDRIA AS BISHOP.

SUMMER.

THIRD COUNCIL, AND SECOND CREED (`BLASPHEMY') OF SIRMIUM.

358.

LENT.

COUNCIL OF ANCYRA.

OCT. 2.

EXPULSION OF GEORGE FROM ALEXANDRIA.

359.

MAY 22.

CONFERENCE OF SIRMIUM. THE DATED CREED.

MAY-DEC.

COUNCILS OF ARIMINUM AND SELEUCIA.

DEC. 31.

CREED OF NIKÉ ACCEPTED BY DELEGATES AT CP.

360.

JAN.

JULIAN PROCLAIMED `AUGUSTUS' AT PARIS.

DEDICATION COUNCIL AT CP. (HOM_AN; DEPOSITION OF `SEMI-ARIAN' LEADERS AND EXCOMMUNICATION OF AETIUS).

361.

MELETIUS ELECTED BISHOP OF ANTIOCH AND DEPOSED. EUZOIUS, ARIAN BISHOP.

NOV. 3.

DEATH OF CONSTANTIUS.

362.

FEB. 9.

JULIAN'S EDICT (FOR RECALL OF BISHOPS) POSTED AT ALEXANDRIA.

FEB. 21.

RETURN OF ATHANASIUS.

SUMMER.

COUNCIL OF THE CONFESSORS AT ALEXANDRIA.

LUCIFER FOUNDS THE SCHISM AT ANTIOCH.

OCTOBER 4.

RENEWED ORDER OF JULIAN AGAINST ATHANASIUS.

RETIREMENT OF ATHANASIUS.

363.

JUNE 26.

DEATH OF JULIAN. ATHAN. IN UPPER EGYPT.

AUGUST?

ATHANASIUS SECRETLY IN ALEXANDRIA.

SEP. 6.

ATHAN. CROSSES THE EUPHRATES.

SEP.

MEETS JOVIAN AT EDESSA.

WINTER.

AT ANTIOCH.

364.

FEB. 14(OR 20).

RETURNS TO ALEXANDRIA.

FEB. 17.

DEATH OF JOVIAN.

MAR. 29.

VALENS APPOINTED `AUGUSTUS' BY VALENTINIAN.

AUTUMN.

COUNCIL OF LAMPSACUS.

365.

SPRING.

V ALENS AT ANTIOCH. RENEWAL OF ARIAN PERSECUTIONS.

MAY 5.

RESCRIPT ARRIVES AT ALEXANDRIA FOR EXPULSION OF ATHANASIUS.

O CT. 5.

ATHANASIUS RETIRES TO HIS COUNTRY HOUSE.

SEP. 28.

REVOLT OF PROCOPIUS AT CP.

366.

FEB. 1.

ATHANASIUS OFFICIALLY RESTORED.

MAY 21.

DEFEAT OF PROCOPIUS.

JULY 21.

CÆSAREUM BURNT AT ALEXANDRIA.

367.

SEP. 24.

ATTEMPT OF LUCIUS TO ENTER ALEXANDRIA.

368.

SEP. 22.

ATHANASIUS BEGINS HIS MEMORIAL CHURCH.

370.

AUG. 7.

MEMORIAL CHURCH DEDICATED.

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ATHAN. AND BASIL BEGINS.

371.

DEPUTATION OF THE MARCELLIANS OF ANCYRA TO ATHANASIUS.

372.

TWO BOOKS AGAINST APOLLINARIANISM.

373.

MAY 2-3.

DEATH OF ATHANASIUS.

N.B.-Dates upon which the Historia Acephala and Festal Index coincide are printed in Thick Type. Where the agreement, though certain, is constructive and not explicit, an asterisk is added. Where the month, or day, is in ordin

A table of the Egyptian months, and a table of the date of Easter, &c., in each year of the episcopate of Athanasius, will be given at the end of the introduction to the collection of Letters at the close of this volume (p. 501 sq.). A list of the consuls of each year is given in the Festal Index.